Palin Pals with Shatner
December 11, 2009: Former Gov. Sarah Palin made a surprise appearance on “The Tonight Show” Friday to poke fun at actor William Shatner, who has repeatedly lampooned Palin’s speaking and writing styles.
Shatner has shown up on “Tonight” several times since it premiered in June with Conan O’Brien as the host to read various Palin missives — from her resignation speech to Tweets to passages from “Going Rogue” — in the style of a beat poet.
He did so again Friday, only this time Palin emerged from backstage after he finished to return the favor, reading excerpts from Shatner’s autobiography.
Palin is wonderful and Shatner looks so flummoxed that I thought maybe he really didn’t know she was coming until I saw the photos Sarah posted. I guess he just really is a good actor! 
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Her Tonight Show appearance is funny, only about 2:30 and posted here:
http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=11665171
and here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zKtR2aSj-0
ATTACHED: Photos from Sarah’s Facebook posting about the show
TEXT of Sarah’s Facebook posting: The Conan visit was fun – the best part was that we had Wounded Warriors with us in the audience. I can’t express how proud I am of their courage and patriotism. I’m extremely happy that Laura Ingraham had the great idea to put the simple coat from the cover of my book to good use. It’s being auctioned to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project and the Fisher House. Laura pulled it all together with a live auction that continues through December 18th. Click here to see the auction and God Bless the U.S.A!
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=197710073434
Palin’s book sells a million copies in two weeks by Allahpundit – December 1, 2009
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/01/palins-book-sells-a-million-copies-in-two-weeks/
After HarperCollins massively boosted the initial run print, I wondered whether they might conceivably have to boost it again. Ten days later, we have our answer.
In all likelihood, with Christmas coming up, sales aren’t even to the halfway point yet.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091201/ap_en_ot/us_books_palin
The print run for “Going Rogue” has been increased again, to 2.8 million copies. The original printing was 1.5 million, then moved up to 2.5 million.
“Going Rogue” joins a select club of million-selling political memoirs that includes Barack Obama’s “The Audacity of Hope,” Hillary Rodham Clinton’s “Living History” and Bill Clinton’s “My Life.”
BJ’s memoir sold in excess of 2.2 million. How close will Sarahcuda come to that? Well, if the Daily Beast was right about HC aiming for a sell-through rate of 75 percent, presumably this means they think she’s going to glide in at 2.1 million or so. Or does it? If they’ve already got a print run of 2.5 million on hand, why boost production further unless they think it’s necessary to meet demand? Maybe they honestly think she’s going to sell somewhere just south of … 3 million copies.
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